This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
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5. Need a typeface fast? Call Type Express.
@mwichary the Netflix of type.
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9. Charles Darwin would have approved of Linoterm.
@mwichary “small” in this case is certainly of its time...
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10. You could have a 1,000 tries, and you would never guess how VariTyper named its Helvetica knock-off.
@mwichary that’s just Helvetica doing a Homer Simpson “Max Power” gig with sunglasses!
“Mega Ron”? Yeah sure, Helv, go home, you’re drunk.
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11. Holy lord, look at this colour-coordinated Avis setup from 1979.
@mwichary My eyes, they burn!
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13. Just this aesthetic.
@mwichary What’s the black tape thing at bottom left of last photo? Did they use ticker tape for sneakernet transfer?
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15. This cool drawing of a keyboard for a manual, with a lot of corrections and whiteouts (if you look closely).
@mwichary love me a good paste up job!
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16. Bad Boys (1995)
@mwichary I bet they’re swiping right in that photo!
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4. Both of these machines (Linotext MBK 500/600) are very cool-looking.
@mwichary
The section in your book on those gigantic text-compositing machines was really interestingAfter the lead-spewing Lynotype behemoths and before the desktop publishing revolution
And how they just got thrown in dumpsters and lost to history
️ So they didn’t fill up the computer museums
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20. More cool keys from the Photon.
@mwichary Is FLUSH R and FLUSH LEFT for toilets in different hemispheres?
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21. The keyboard of Comp/Set 4800, and an 8" floppy disk.
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19. I would have put this in my book in an instant.
@mwichary Devil in your ear, it's not too late
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@europlus AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHH
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@mwichary Leader of the Deceptifonts
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This is a thread of beautiful or interesting computer-y things I scanned at the Museum of Printing this weekend.
(Eventually all of this will be processed and deposited at Internet Archive!)
1. You don’t see a lot of yellow in computing.
@mwichary What a great thread – thank you!
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20. More cool keys from the Photon.
@mwichary needs more Oops and Please
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24. This keyboard is yet another entry in the classic Return/Enter story!
The main paragraph break (Enter) is a ¶ pilcrow, which is amazing. Above it is QC (Quad Center, or Enter + Align Center) and QR (Enter + Align Right), and even QM (Quad Middle? Not sure what that means).
And you can see New Line, or today’s Return, in the vicinity.
@mwichary Wow that's pretty awesome. It's what early word processors used as markup for carriage returns as well. I recall this specifically from Wordperfect 2.0.
Was this keyboard made specifically for a computer or was it an evolution of an existent electric typewriter keyboard I wonder?
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